tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78544948277683203932014-10-04T19:30:08.240-07:00Parallel Bars Reading SeriesOrganized by poets Dorothea Lasky and Laura Solomon in conjunction with artist and gallery owner Tim Bowen, Parallel Bars will pair poetry with visual art whose messages converse with one another by means of form, process and subject matter. By offering this microcosm of existing relationships, the series hopes to provide audience participants with an opportunity to discover larger connections between sight and sound, time and space, and individual and collective experiences.Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7854494827768320393.post-33968446032432826642007-03-19T10:24:00.000-07:002007-03-19T10:25:19.569-07:00Paul Killebrew reading in front of Tim Bowen's paintings<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_WDSVh630pCA/Rf7HeWrwvII/AAAAAAAAAAg/hWYxsN-Nlak/s1600-h/reading+3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_WDSVh630pCA/Rf7HeWrwvII/AAAAAAAAAAg/hWYxsN-Nlak/s320/reading+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5043687957000666242" border="0" /></a>Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7854494827768320393.post-67981777291304012482007-03-19T10:22:00.000-07:002007-03-19T10:23:30.372-07:00Dorothea Lasky reading in front of Tim Bowen's paintings<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_WDSVh630pCA/Rf7G_GrwvHI/AAAAAAAAAAU/4QDeTkr7WoE/s1600-h/reading+4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_WDSVh630pCA/Rf7G_GrwvHI/AAAAAAAAAAU/4QDeTkr7WoE/s320/reading+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5043687420129754226" border="0" /></a>Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7854494827768320393.post-91563735700820848332007-03-17T10:08:00.000-07:002007-03-19T04:47:02.868-07:00First Reading<p style="margin-top: 0pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" >When: Saturday, March 17. 2007, 7 p.m.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" ><br />The first event w</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" >ill feature Tim Bowen's </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" > series of 100 paintings entitled <strong><em>PeopleTIME 2005 </em></strong></span><strong><em></em></strong><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" >which </span><em></em><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" >depicts </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" > various significant national and international events that occurred throughout the year 2005. The title is based on the idea of using two images per week, one from People magazine and one from Time magazine, focusing on relevant news items which juxtapose the superficialities of popular culture with the serious, often grim, geopolitical and social realities of the day. </span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" >Within the visual, public world of <em>PeopleTIME 2005, </em> poets <strong>Paul Killebrew </strong> and <strong>Dorothea Lasky </strong> will read from their new books. A single poem, Killebrew's <strong><em>Inspector vs. Evader </em></strong><em></em>(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2007) is a litany of private observations in constant competition with one another. Like Bowen's project, the poem laces together moments both monumental and trivial while persistently seeking the meanings to be found between them all. By doing so, Killebrew illuminates the holiness to be found within each moment of experience, no matter its outward appearance. </span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" >From this same vision emerge the poems of Dorothea Lasky's <strong><em>AWE</em></strong>, forthcoming this year from Wave Books. Within this collection, Lasky captures the magnitude and privilege of having a brain and body isolated, even if sometimes painfully so, from all other brains and bodies. Insisting upon a solitude that transcends itself, the poems reveal a separateness to things that enables connection, a process that in turn makes possible our awe to be a part of anything at all, even more so, our awe to be a part of everything. </span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" >In keeping with the nature of the specific work of all three contributors, and in line with the application-to-life-mindedness of the series itself, <strong><em>Parallel Bars </em>will dedicate its first event to local poet Frank Sherlock. Sherlock was hospitalized on January 22nd with a sudden and mysterious illness that turned out to be a serious case of meningitis </strong>. He needed emergency surgery and also suffered a heart attack and kidney failure as a result of symptoms related to the illness. Like many other Americans, Sherlock is uninsured. Donations will be accepted on his behalf, and the event will serve as a precursor to a benefit show to be held the next day by the friends of Frank Sherlock. </span></p>Dorothea Laskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10460629244930783793noreply@blogger.com0